1. John Charles Snyder
150 Old Ridge Rd., Macon, GA 31211
Home 478-741-8761 /Cell 478-223-1277
Email: snyder520@cox.net
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Engineering professional with 34 years of diverse Engineering experience. Extensive experience in:
Process Improvement and Design Engineering Management Field Service Troubleshooting
Project Management Retrofit Engineering Design Support Capital Engineering Design Support
Manufacturing layouts Preventative Maintenance Personnel Training
NERC/FERC Compliance Support SOX Compliance Support Company Advisory Adherence
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2.7/4.0) Major (3.1/4.0) June, 1982
Master of Business Administration, Georgia College and State University (3.55/4.0) June 1994
Leadership Development Program, Southern Company, June 1999
Other Southern Company training classes: Critical Path Method (CPM) - Project Management Class, Empowered Leadership,
Competitive Market Simulation, Finance for Non-Financial Managers, Student of the Business
Continuous Annual Compliance Training for: NERC Training, Confine Space Training, Ethics Training, Clearance Training,
Arsenic, Lead, Asbestos, Chlorine, Ammonia Training, Personal Protective Clothing (PPE), Arc Flash Training
Computer skills: Power point, AutoCAD, Excel, Word, Access, Schweitzer Relays, Cimplicity PLC, Myriad, MSDS (3E)
WORK HISTORY
Southern Company
Lead Engineer-Southern Company Services 2000 – present
Consultant for all electrical needs for 14 power plants that use diversity of fuels of gas, hydro, oil, and coal available
24 hour a day, 7 days a week.
• Manager of 3 engineers and 1 technician as a team in supporting and protecting generating assets. Develop work plans,
schedules, approve time sheets, and expense statements.
• Assist all plant managers, engineering managers, operations managers, and maintenance managers for all units in
meeting the following FERC/NERC/SERC requirements:
o Trip Checks
o Relay Calibrations
o Trip Checks
o Voltage Regulators
o Transformer Device Testing
To avoid maximum penalties of 1,000,000 dollars per incidence, per day.
• Sub-manage another crew of 2 technicians in the area of :
o Assist all plants in meeting Sarbanes-Oxley compliance in the areas Watt Hour Meter calibrations.
o NERC requirement of testing DC and Battery systems. (Discharge test, 18 month resistance testing, monthly
voltage and specific gravity readings.
To avoid maximum penalties of 1,000,000 dollars per incidence, per day.
• Provide around the clock trouble shooting for all plants in area of relaying, relay communications, CT and PT
instrumentation, medium voltage switchgear, motor control centers, motors, transformers, transformer instrumentation.
• Provide retrofit support for relay upgrades to Schweitzer and Beckwith relays. Replacing aging ABB, GE, and
electromechanical relays that comprise of the majority of generation outages. Cost savings of relay upgrades are in
excess of $5,000,000.
• Provide expertise of Environmental Project support for all electrical needs. Most of this work has been at Plant Scherer
for 4.2 billion dollar clean air projects of FGDs, SCRs, Hydrated Lime Stone Injection, and Bag Houses. Support has
included all relay calibrations, CT and PT testing, switchgear and MCC wire checks, interfacing checks between
switchgear and DCS, DC systems and proper installations, 24 medium and major motor checkouts, modbus checkouts,
and WHM installation and calibrations. All projects have completed on time and on budget.
• Acted as Start-up manager for $35 million dollar clean water project at Plant Branch. Project was completed on time
and under budget.
• Voltage Regulator upgrades from analog to digital format. Standardize on Basler ECS2100 regulators on 10 generating
units. Cost savings derived from breaking away from obsolete and hard to obtain parts.

2. Sr. Plant Engineer, Planning Coordinator -Georgia Power Company/Plant Branch 1989-2000
Responsible for maximum generation, minimizing costs, adhering and maintaining to compliance and regulations.
• Assisted with field experience on design, checkout, and maintenance of CEMS for the plant for the Clean Air Act of
1990. This project included communication to all levels of management, cross-functional/state team management,
determining best practices, software development, training, etc. Developed final product through modified procedures
the plant placed into daily operations. This project was completed on time and before penalties for compliance took
effect.
• Coal Handling automation project. This project consisted of designing, installing, and checkout of PLC control scheme
to sequentially start up to five conveyor belts with crushers, magnetic separator, and interfacing gate positions with zero
speed switches. This project solved the problem of voltage dips on switchgear that previously would shutdown coal
handling and interrupted coal flow to the plant.
• DCS upgrade to Foxboro system with touch screen controls. This project included communication to all levels of
management within the plant. This project consisted for placing major unit equipment into DCS controls. Equipment
included FD, ID, PA fans and mills for two units. This project was completed within the outage window and saving the
company additional costs of a prolonged outage while providing a digital interface to existing equipment. This project
also replaced equipment that was no longer supported by original vendor.
• Functioned part time as a first line supervisor (team leader) for operations (in control rooms), fossil fuel, and for
materials warehousing. This role included time keeping, performance management, and scheduling of covered
employees.
• Member of the Plant Design Team – Select group of employees from all functions of the plant to discuss process
improvements. Provided plant re-organization plan to bolster the planning process to save over six million dollars in
O&M operations and maintenance costs.
Start-up Engineer-Georgia Power Company/Plant Scherer 1985 – 1989
Responsible for managing all aspects of 10 systems essential for start-up of Scherer Unit 3and Unit 4. The start was
completed on-time and under budget for units.
• For Scherer 3, for systems of feedwater, boiler controls, auxiliary steam, boiler house miscellaneous, and fire
protection. System responsibilities included assembling and enforcing completion of acceptance tests after turnover.
Design changes based on operational needs. Total improvement cost savings over $300,000.
• For Scherer 4, responsible for systems of condensate, boiler controls, HVAC, DC system, DAS system, and fire
protection. System responsibilities included assembling and enforcing completion of acceptance tests after. Design
changes based on design versus operational needs. Total improvement cost savings over $250,000.
Jr. Engineer-Georgia Power Company/Plant Bowen 1982– 1985
Started out from college for taking responsibility for multiple generation improvement projects while maximizing
output while minimizing costs.
• A retrofit project on a coal feeder from electromechanical controls to digital controls. Project included calculating
density of coal across a weight span with load cells for a more accurate metering of fuel. This in turn provided more
accurate efficiency calculation.
• Collected motor usage data over several years to capture seasonal changes to station service. The project saved the
plant over $20,000 when station service was balanced across all units at the plant.